This said, we are proud to introduce to you “Bukisa’s Series of Blog Posts” with the aim to help you deliver great content to our readers through valuable writing tips and tools. This series of blog posts shall follow a certain chronological order so to allow each tip and piece of advice to help you in an ‘organized manner’ as we move along towards the end of the series. This approach limits the chances of you missing a valuable tip, as you’ll be reminded that content writing has its own ‘must follow process’.

With this in mind, we would like you, our reader, to suggest topics that you are interested in reading about for this new series.  Please let us know your ideas by leaving a comment below.

Thanks,

The Bukisa Team

Due to the success of gaining new members, greater popularity brought about from our Bukisa authors, an increasing amount of advertising spending online and increased optimization of our monetization efforts, we are happy to announce that we are able to raise the Bukisa Index from 3.42 to 3.53.

Hopes are high that we will able to further increase the Bukisa Index in the near future.

Keep up the good work,

Simon & the Bukisa Team

http://www.bukisa.com

We are happy to announce our new integration with “After the Deadline” into the Bukisa content editor.

“After the Deadline” is much more than just a simple spellchecker, and also offers:

• Contextual Spell Checking
• Advanced Style Checking
• Intelligent Grammar Checking

To use it just click the “ABC” icon (located furthest to the right).

We hope you enjoy this and that it helps you take your writing to a whole new level.

Simon & the Bukisa Team

I am happy to announce the latest Bukisa release, and I’d like to tell you a little bit about what has been added and fixed.

New Features

Image Upload Tool

This tool will allow you to upload files from your local computer, as well as online sources, files in bulk and also the ability to share images between your different articles. You will also be able to use these uploaded images as an article thumbnail.

A full guide explaining the usage of the new tool will be released soon.

New Facebook &Twitter widgets

We have added two new eye catching widgets in all article pages. This will help increase your promotion on two of the largest social sites – Twitter & Facebook — just click, approve & share.

Featured Content

We have added a new tab called “Featured” to the top menu to give a better showcase for some of the top quality content published. These content items were handed picked by Aviv, our Community manager.

Check it out: http://www.bukisa.com/featured

Integration with Get Satisfaction

I am sure you have noticed that we have started using Get Satisfaction to handle part of our support – this contains a knowledge base of past answered questions along with the option for you to answer each other – its called “People Powered Community Support”

Check it out: http://getsatisfaction.com/bukisa

Fixed Issues

- The Bukisa stats have been rebuilt and the information you receive in your dashboards is accurate across all your reports.

All the best & happy publishing

Simon & the Bukisa Team

Due to popular demand we have added 2 new banners to your arsenal of your Bukisa promo banners.

These 2 banners fit in really nicely with most blogging platform page designs.

You can use these banners to build your network of Bukisa publishers.

Enjoy!

As usual if you have any feedback, please drop us a line.

Do to this in all your reports you will no longer be seeing “Unique Views” but instead you will be seeing “Qualified Views”

What does this mean for you?

Well, if you are a regular user not engaging in sneaky techniques to drive traffic, you will see no difference in your reports, but if on the other hand you engage with some “black hat” techniques you are likely to see much less impressions for your content.

What do we consider to be a “Qualified View” ?

A qualified view is the same as a unique view (a single visitor that viewed your content in a 24 hour period), but in addition we also check for the following:

1. Cookies are Set (required for unique user tracking)
2. JavaScript is active (we can’t pay for views if teh client viewing doesn’t support ads)
3. A valid referrer (not a traffic exchange site, PTC site, auto surf, junk traffic purchases)
4. Activity patterns

If you have any questions please leave them in our comments section and we will address them.

Simon & The Bukisa Team

We wanted to share some online metrics demonstrating the excellent growth Bukisa has been getting over the past few months.

Compete.com

Alexa

Quantcast

What this means for you, more viewers and more earnings from your content.

Now is a great time to start building your network of publishers, invite your friends to join today.

This month, we are lowering the Index quite a bit (by 30 cents to $3.42). In the spirit of transparency that we believe in, we would like to clarify the reason.

Although we were not hit quite as bad as the rest of the internet market (thanks to the advertisement systems we use), in general online advertising budgets are still being cut due to the ongoing financial crisis in the US, inevitably it affects the way we calculate the Bukisa Index.

We at Bukisa will continue our ongoing efforts to better optimize the sites ad performance in order to give our publishers the highest CPM possible.

The good news that I would like to point out is, that the traffic in March grew over 100% meaning more and more people are viewing your content and Bukisa is gaining better traction online.

So if on one hand the Bukisa Index is a bit lower, on the other hand the number of views keeps increasing dramatically.

Even at $3.42, Bukisa continues to offer the highest CPM rev-share over any of our competitors, and we do believe – as the markets will hopefully improve in the next 6 months – the index will go up again accordingly.

$10 and $25

Where the new default minimum payout is $10 (instead of the current $50 minimum payout), these changes will have an immediate effect and will be active for the upcoming payout in March.

We have done this due to great feedback from our community.

If you wish to receive a higher minimum payout, please login at http://www.bukisa.com/login using your display name and password, and go to your account settings to change your minimum payout.

And don’t forget to stay tuned, our latest updates & features are coming very soon…

All the best!

Simon and the Bukisa Team.

There is a new service called ‘Apture’ that allows our site visitors and users to enhance existing articles (only people that have allowed this under their CC license will have this active on their articles).

So what can be added you ask?

So for example you link to a Youtube video, so before Apture the user would have to click and leave Bukisa to go watch the movie, now with an enhanced article all the reader needs to do is hover over the link and they will be able to watch the movie in a nice little pop-up window, you can even choose to embed the video in to the page at a click of a button if you wish.

So, any article boasting this CC license – (which is our default license for new content) will be able to have their article ‘enhanced’ – all that you need to do is click the letter ‘e’ on your keyboard and signup for free with Apture.

You can try it on this article (which I enhanced by adding Wikipedia information for each country mentioned in the article).

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/26055_top-10-tourist-destinations

By enhancing articles users visiting will remain longer on our site and enjoy exposure to more materials and thus contribute to a better overall performance for our site and content.

You can learn more about the features of Apture here: http://www.apture.com/bloggers/

If you are also interested in becoming an editor of Apture enhancements for Bukisa please drop us a line and let us know.